Vasily Grossman, now widely regarded as the greatest Russian novelist of the 20th century, died 50 years ago this month. The author of the remarkable Everything Flows and Life and Fate (the only manuscript ever to be itself arrested by the ...

At Easter I’ll be in New Orleans. It’s a city that feels like a banquet of all the great things that life has to offer: music, rhythm, sex, culture, food. I’m expressing my excitement the same way that I express most other strong emotions - through cooking. You’ll notice the theme of ...

Paul Durcan's eighth decade and 23rd collection find him as witty, as combative and as unexpected as ever. In The Days of Surprise (Harvill Secker) he muses upon the new Pope, the gift of a malacca cane, the joy of retail therapy, the horror ...